“This means that this new crop of potential higher education global powers that haven’t really been discussed before are, on average, better than BRICS in terms of higher education,” he explained. According to the study, Thailand has the third-highest research output compared to other TACTICS countries, representing a growth of 11 per cent between 2011 and 2015. Its research quality is also very close to the world average, with a field-weighted citation impact of 0.94. It is also the only country with a higher level of research quality than the world average of 1.08. Simon Marginson, UCL’s director of the Centre for Global Higher Education, said “the crucial feature of rising national higher education systems is that they combine the rapid growth of participation … with emerging science systems in which published papers are growing as fast as enrolments.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 26, 2016 16:35 UTC